The South
Korean air force has posted a Les Miserables video parody on YouTube.
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The South
Korean air force has posted a Les Miserables video parody on YouTube, complete
with snow-shoveling airmen, a lovelorn military service conscript and a
vindictive superior officer.
The
13-minute video, entitled “Les Militaribles”, has garnered more than 500,000
views in just a few days and even received a Twitter nod from one of the stars
of the Hollywood version, Russell Crowe.
The parody
uses the same famous score for the musical’s big numbers Look Down, I Dreamed a
Dream and Do You Hear the People Sing? but replaces the original lyrics with an
alternative Korean-language version.
In the
opening scene, young airmen doing their military service labor at clearing a
runway after a heavy snowfall.
“Look Down”
becomes “Dig Down”, as the conscripts chant: “Dig down, dig down, and clear the
snow below... there is no end to this accursed snow.”
The loose
plot centers around one airman, Valjean, whose girlfriend, Cosette, has come to
the base to visit.
His
overbearing superior Javert insists he return in one hour, leaving the couple
only a few snatched minutes together.
“We made
the video to lift the spirit of servicemen who had to work so hard to clear
snow during the unusually heavy winter this year,” said Major Cheon
Myeong-nyeong, one of the officers behind the project.
All the
cast – with the exception of the woman playing Cosette – were conscripts, he
told reporters.
Two years
of military service is mandatory for all able-bodied men in South Korea, which
technically remains at war with its rival the North.
Many serve
in remote, mountainous areas and get little time off to visit family or
friends.
“We hope
that the video can help shatter the image of the military as a dull place and
encourage more youth to take the service with delight,” Cheon said.
Agence France-Presse
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